Mr. E. Patrick Shea

E. Patrick Shea is a partner with Gowling WLG International Ltd. in Toronto, where he practices commercial law with a focus on commercial insolvency. He is a certified specialist in bankruptcy and insolvency law and has acted for a variety of clients in large corporate restructurings and insolvency matters across many industries. He is also one of less than a dozen lawyers to be certified by the LawSociety of Upper Canada as a specialist in bankruptcy and insolvency law, and in 2015 was awarded the Law Society Medal, the highest award that the Law Society of Upper Canada can confer on a member.Mr. Shea has acted for a variety of clients in large corporate restructuring and insolvency matters in the entertainment, retail, automotive, airline, food and beverage, pharmaceutical and other industrial sec-tors. He has also acted as an outside advisor/consultant to the Canadian and Jamaican governments on the reform of their insolvency legislation. A former chair of the Canadian Bar Association?s Insolvency Section, Mr. Shea currently sits as a member of the Canadian Bar Association?s Legislation and LawReform Committee and the National Sections? Council. He is also vice-chair of the Ontario Bar Association?s Insolvency Section. Mr. Shea has served as a reserve officer and pilot/instructor with the CanadianForces, and has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Canadian Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation. In 2013, he was inducted as a member of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem by the Governor General on behalf of Her Majesty QueenElizabeth II. Mr. Shea sits on the board of a number of nonprofit companies and is a governor and vice-chair of the Air Cadet League of Canada, Ontario Provincial Committee, the Canadian Government?s partner in the Royal Canadian Air Cadet program. He received his B.A. with distinction from CarletonUniversity and his LL.N. cum laude from the University of Ottawa.